Decorating with Grain Sacks



Love the chair  from Mes Belles at Etsy,details,details, notice the cording, tufting,brass buttons on the bottom, absolutely beautiful, this one is sold, but she has the green one for $$$$ , love this, its time to learn to reupholstery, however, she made this, you cannot tell, it looks professional. Her prices are reasonable compared to a professional upholstery company.



countrylifenaturals@etsy.com

Antique Grain Sack Bowl/Bag  love the bags.

love this from "junky style"







This is a different look,  from GinnyMae at Etsy, she does beautiful things, love it too.

Well, I invite you to grab a cup of coffee and go to the following sources, dream, dream and more dreaming.

Parna.com sells all kinds of grain sacks from Europe, the prices are in Euros, beautiful

Loodylady@ebay  sells the beauties, expensive but gorgeous grain sacks

Willow Decor blog shows the authentic German and French, some Belgian, she refers you to "the trunk"
great samples, high prices.

cgiebay  has Romania hand woven sacks  a few not too many.

In my humble opinion, and after talking to some wholesalers, they are overpriced here in the USA.  The ones that come from Europe, you really have to be careful, but if you take your time, they are deals at ebay, etsy, and all over blogland.
Perhaps you can get in touch with some of the bloggers from Europe, they are a lot of bloggers from Germany, Belgium, etc. not too many from France.  Be careful with the grain sacks from France, I know a dealer that spends six months in France and six months here, she brings them from the South of France, she buys them dirt cheap.  So, heads up.

Nevertheless,  WE LOVE GRAIN SACKS, if you do anything with them please send me apicture or email me, or a comment.

XOXOXO

martha

New friends

A warm welcome to all my new friends, I hope you enjoy the blog and, leave me some "love" comments.

Speaking of comments and followers, blogger is having problems again, I can read the comments, but I saw some of the followers the other day, and tonight they are gone (pictures) again, are you having the same trouble????


Anyway, we are having a "heat wave" for us temperature in the 80's and 90' with humidity is very very hard.  They said, one more day, and relief will come on the weekend!!!!

Some more pictures of the great shelf, as you can see it is very chippy, I like it, but I thought of repainting it, but I am not sure.

If you can see the background of the picture, I have a french huge grain sack.
Its so thick and pretty, I don't want to destroy it to make a pillow or reupholster a chair.
I thought about it, but these sacks come from Germany, France, Hungary, Romania, Belgian.
I heard that the gypsies go to the farms, and bring them to the buyers, they sell them for very little money in Hungry, then here in USA are going for lots of $
Does anybody know anybody selling these beauties for less than $50.00 and up please let me know.
They are very pretty and the latest "trend"

these knobs are the cutest??
I just made them last night in my spare time ha ha!!
like if we all have extra time,


love you all

martha

The final step

Here is the final step on my small drawer I painted with the chalk paint.
I first, applied the clear was, a very small amount with dollar store  brushes, (theirs are expensive for me right now)  then, I let it dry, and I applied the darker wax, a little at a time with another dollar store brush, then I wiped it out, left some, in, according to how it look.  I decided I wanted it a little darker, what do you think. I am not a painter at all. Everything is trial and error.  I painted a light blue, turquoise, MS kind of color, the name is Loui , then when I distressed it the original color showed up, it was white, and green, the same green that a lot of vintage furniture comes in.

I love it, it was easier than I thought, there are so many artists in blog line that paint so nicely that, I'm learning.

Try the paint, do what I did, just buy one can to see if you like it.
Personally, I have a lot of blue paint that I bought at Lowes, Home Depot, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, the list goes on and on.

Oh, I forgot, then I put my lacy knobs on it, to add a little something to the piece, I have three more to go.

this is part of a settee I painted with SW and distressed it a year ago.

another corner of the settee, I have to take full pictures, I'm sorry, just to show the difference in paints, SW and chalk paint.

One more find

A beautiful set of ruby flash goblets and dessert plates

A brand new french grain sack, large and thick, with the eiffel tower tag, I couldn't resist it, french and french

I got the grain sack as a gift, never used it, its so beautiful, I couldn't afford them. I just thought the little gift tag goes with the grain sack.

A beautiful day

Welcome Melanie, and all my new followers, its a beautiful day in the neighborhood, Melanie is from the East Coast, a neighbor. I call everybody from New Jersey and north my neighbors, I feel sometimes I should live south of Penn. near Alabama, Mo, or west near Wisconsin, Oregon.
Blogland is popular all over, you meet so many people with the same interests like you, and, what I like is that they don't think you are crazy when you paint an antique, and then distress it so much, that it looks beautiful.  People that don't like shabby chic do not get it at all.

Anyway, here is my drawer, I painted with the chalk paint, then distressed it to death, I need to add the waxes, that is the project for today, but at least  half is done.

drawer painted with the chalk paint, then distressed, the drawer was green, then blue, then I painted blue again.  When I distressed it the original green showed up.

this is an old shelf, very chippy originally, I just sand it very carefully because I'm leaving the original paint. then I added the knobs with the numbers  I had three and sold them on Etsy this is the last one, very architectural and chippy

I left the original hardware, added my little tag (I'm obsessed with the tags)

 Thank you for joining my blog, and do visit my shop on etsy

martha